Seamless learning
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The document discusses seamless learning through social media, highlighting the integration of formal and informal learning experiences to enhance student engagement. Key concepts include personalized learning, ubiquitous access, and the use of social media for organizational and individual educational purposes. It emphasizes the importance of creating motivating conditions for learners and adapting strategies for effective social media use in education.
Seamless learning
- 1. Seamless Learning Through Social Media Stefanie Panke University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill panke@sog.unc.edu
- 2. Seamless Learning Blurring of boundaries between formal and informal learning to create seamless learning experiences • Student centered learning • Learning by whatever means are available, convenient and comfortable for the learner • Related concept: Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
- 3. 10 Dimensions of Seamlessness (Wong & Looi, 2011) 1. Formal and informal learning 2. Personalized and social learning 3. Across time 4. Across locations 5. Ubiquitous access 6. Physical and digital worlds 7. Multiple devices 8. Multiple learning tasks 9. Knowledge synthesis 10. Multiple pedagogical and learning activity models
- 4. Purpose “The key is to create conditions that motivate and inspire students to devote more time and energy to purposeful activities, both inside and outside the classroom” Kuh, 1996 Life-long learners who can decide when, where and how to learn Self-identified resources Personal learning spaces Transformation of learning habits
- 5. Theoretical Framework • Social Learning Theory: social media sharing culture reaches learners by providing models they can follow • Bricolage: social media allows learners to combine bits and pieces from different domains and learning experiences • Patterns: Patterns offer a way to analyze working solutions in social media in a coherent form. Learner Perspective Content Perspective Evaluation Perspective
- 6. Social Media for Organizational Learning AACE Social Media Channels
- 7. Strategy: Focus Content • Goal: Engage the community beyond conferences • Strategy: Regular editorial content for blog, Twitter feed and Facebook page • Engagement rates (retweets and likes) have tripled on Twitter • AACE’s Facebook page has over 5.000 fans. • Blog visits continue to rise
- 8. Social Media at the Curriculum / Program Level Helmholtz Management Academy • 38,000 employees, annual budget of more than €4 billion - Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest scientific organization • Approach: Social media infused learning management system for blended-learning approaches • Outcomes: Lack of acceptance by trainers and participants in the management academy • New approach: Blog as low-threshold tool
- 9. Social Media Use for Individual Instructors / Classes Software Design Courses, TH Köln • “object oriented programming” (OOP): 400-500 students in their 2nd semester • “paradigms of programming” (PP) addressed 70-90 computer science students in their 3rd semester • Tools: Screencasts, polling in the classroom, LMS integration • Some screencasts were viewed up to 800 times. • Consumption time equaled to full lecture participation of 120 students on average.
- 10. Conclusions Not all seams will unravel, new seams will emerge. When success and failure are visible, leave room for organic growth and effective tinkering. Thriving social media habitats require designers to understand personal roles and boundaries.
- 11. Your opinion Have you engaged with AACE’s social media channels? What content would you like to see?